Lok Raj Baral is Professor and Executive Chairman of Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS), Kathmandu, Nepal. He has served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Tribhuvan University during 1976-1989. He was also the President of the Nepal Political Science Association, Nepal Council of World Affairs, and Society for Constitutional and Parliamentary Exercises (SCOPE).
Professor Baral was a member of the delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1990 and International Research Committee member of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), and also served as Nepal's ambassador to India in 1996-1997. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and Fellow at CHR Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.
His previous publications include Nepal: Quest for Participatory Democracy (2006); Elections and Governance in Nepal (2005); Nepal: Political Parties and Parliament (2004); The Regional Paradox: Essays in Nepali and South Asian Affairs (2000); Nepal: Problems of Governance (1993); Regional Migrations, Ethnicity and Security (1990); and The Politics of Balanced Interdependence (1988).
